A Look Back Part Two: Breaking Fashion Rules

 

I always seem to lose track of what day it is when school isn’t in session…

THE STORY

…and this week is no exception. When I decided to break my “best of” post into two days I didn’t even realize that today is actually New Year’s Day. I guess you’ll have to live with the fact that my first post of the year is actually looks from last year. It didn’t help my time tracking ability that I’ve been not exactly healthy since Monday. Not sick exactly, but basically unable to function. I woke up Monday with absolutely no balance or spatial perception to speak of and pretty much unable to hear in my right ear. Um, wth?

Now here is where my mini-rant on ineptitude begins…stick around, it does have it’s amusing parts. So I head off to Urgent Care; I already had a routine doctor’s appointment scheduled for Wednesday, but no damn way was I waiting two more days with my head feeling like someone filled my right ear with insulating foam while I was sleeping. Anyway, long story short, this dude (no, he doesn’t warrant the title “Dr.” which btw I found out later he wasn’t…he was a physician’s assistant) at Urgent Care tells me my eustachian tube is filled with fluid of the icky thick variety and all I could do was take Mucinex and hope it went away. Hope?? Seriously dude, try navigating your house like you’re a drunken sailor on shore leave. I’m bruised from freakin’ head to toe from crashing into things; my dogs see me coming and they run for their lives. In addition, and I quote, “Under no circumstances should you take decongestant”. Hmm…Of course I went home, dosed myself with Mucinex and hit up google. Do I have a medical degree? No. But every site I checked (and when researching medical stuff I only go to sites like WebMD and MayoClinic) said decongestant, decongestant, decongestant. Oookkaayy…needless to say I started decongestant again.

Fast forward to Wednesday. I fill my fabulous doctor in on all of this and she says, “What did he put you on?” Um, nothing. “Whhaatt??!! No antibiotic?” is her response. She is further baffled by the fact he told me to take Mucinex because it would do nothing to alleviate the problem and why would he tell me no decongestant because I should be doing lines of the stuff. Okay, maybe not lines, but you get my drift. So after a shot of prednisone to the hip to alleviate the swelling in my ear tubes and sinuses she sends me on my way with a prescription for an antibiotic. Which leads to ineptitude rant two…

My pharmacy sucks. Pretty much every one in the area does, hence the reason I don’t switch. About two months ago I went completely spider monkey on them. I can count on one hand how many times in my life I’ve made a loud angry display and that was one of them. For the second time in a week in a half I had gone to pick up a prescription a solid hour past the time I got the automated call it was ready. And for the second time it wasn’t ready; they hadn’t even started on it. They said they would rush it if I’d wait 10 minutes. Okay, I can do that. 15 minutes later I go back to the counter and ya, they hadn’t started it yet. So when the woman said, “Please sit down on the bench and we’ll let you know when it’s ready” I responded with, “I absolutely will not sit down on the bench. I’ve been there for 15 minutes waiting for something I was told was done an hour and a half ago. I am not leaving this spot without my prescription.” All she got out of her mouth was, “It will be ready in 10 minutes if you’ll just sit…” and I. went. off. Like a spider monkey trippin’ on acid. Needless to say I got the prescription and a giftcard to shut me up.

That story was background info for the current blatant display of ineptitude. I dropped off my prescription and had an entire face to face conversation for several minutes with the woman in regard to said prescription. She asked if I was waiting and I said yes I’d wait on the bench…yes, the bench. Now this bench is maybe ten feet in front of the counter. Directly in front of the counter. I was sitting there for about two minutes (seriously, no more than three) when my phone rings. It’s the pharmacy. No, I’m not making this up. I think it’s their confused automated system calling me, but when I answer it I hear the noises already around me. “Um, hello?” And I get, “Is Deborah there?” I slowly look up, and right there in front of me, on the phone is the same woman I just freakin’ talked to. On the phone. I say, “Uh, ya. I’m sitting right here in front of you.” She looks up to see my “you’re kind of a dumbass” smirk and just hangs up the phone. Ya, and these are people working in the healthcare industry. It’s a scary world my friends.

THE OUTFITS

I have to say, I love my second half of the year outfits more than my first half of the year, although the same commonalities apply. Print mixing and opposing elements. The second half of the year was when my boho phase (okay, not really a phase since it won’t be ending anytime soon) started. Tunic dresses are my new BFF. I’ve now got a collection of tunic dresses so large I should be embarrassed. But I’m not. I know, fashion rules dictate that short busty chicks shouldn’t wear tunics. And 50 year olds shouldn’t wear denim shorts, Converse, and over the knee boots. Ya, and ladies shouldn’t have tattoos and drop f-bombs. Whatever.

THE TIP

Break fashion rules. Break all of the fashion rules if you’re feelin’ froggy. Age does not by any means determine personal style, and do not let anyone tell you otherwise. If you’re 50 and want to wear otk boots, do it. Better yet, do it when you’re 70. If you’re 20 and want to wear Chanel-style suits and pillbox hats every day, by all means, have at it. The important thing is rock it with confidence. Own it. Love yourself. Love your style. Naysayers be damned.

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